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Friday, December 28, 2012

Have you been over to the Studio Calico kit club today? All of the January kits are up for sale and the reveal of the new creative team galleries are up! Thought I'd pop in and share some things I made with the kits.This one is made with the add-on #2 Wildberry Court. I inked up the Pink Paislee hearts with stamping ink and the embossed design shows through. These chip hearts are SO cute, left plain or colored! They are from Pink Paislee's Artisan line.

Here I wanted to add a bunch of the fun patterns in the main Block Party Card Kit, so I cut strips and angled them for a quick card with a lot of fun impact. :) Papers are in the 6x6 paper pad.

This little card set was stamped with the main Block Party Card Kit stamps to create the backgrounds here. Loving gray lately! Such a nice neutral with any combo of colors!

This is a little pocket that comes in the main Block Party Card Kit and it already has the "hello" printed on the front and the red pattern inside the pocket, so I wanted to add some weight to the left side of the card to balance out the heaviness from the right side. I added some stickers from the add-on #4 Woodbrooke Road kit and punched hearts.The red woodgrain heart is actually washi tape from the main card kit. I added it to white cardstock and then punched a heart from it. These are popped up with dimensional adhesive. I added a pocket within the pocket to add color! The orange pocket is from the Woodbrooke Road kit.

Another pocket here from Woodbrooke Road. Used a piece of vellum to write my thank you note and tuck inside the pocket, because I didn't want to cover up the pretty stripes. This card is a combo of the main card kit and the two add-ons I received, Woodbrooke Road and Wildberry Court.

Layered a 2" circle punched from patterned paper and some stickers for more interest on the front of this pocket.

Next up is a card that I used some "printables" on. These are the Digital Printables #2 (includes the yeah card and the gray notebook paper). Tape and background paper is from Woodbrooke Road, heart, arrow and dots are from Wildberry Court. (It turned out a bit different from my sneak, the reason is totally my fault...I had used the wrong cardstock and ribbon on this one and had to do it over. Turns out those products were from last month's card kit, and I didn't notice until after I had posted the sneak! So I had to do a little revamping! lol)

Last, but not least, a card made with Wildberry Court. I cut around the arrow paper to create a big arrow to house the hearts.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Just wanted to pop in quickly! I have a few more sneaks to share with you of the upcoming January Card Kit and add-ons from Studio Calico! The kits will be released in just a few days. These first sneak is made with the Main Card Kit only called Block Party. Loved the patterns in the papers!!

The "thank you set" was made with the Main Card Kit only also - used one of the stamps to create some fun backgrounds.

This one is a mix of the main card kit, add-on #2 Wildberry Court and add-on #4 Westbrook Road. LOVE that tape -- eeeeek! Going to be using it on everything!

This one is made mostly with the Main Card Kit with the exception of the black stickers and orange stripe pocket from add-on #4.

If you haven't been over to the Pink Paislee blog this month, you will want to head on over for lots of fun and giveaways! We are holding our annual Countdown to Christmas event with a new project every day. I saw a cute little place holder idea on Pinterest that I had to try out with the gorgeous City Sidewalks line. These are made with full size candy canes, but you could make smaller versions with the mini candy canes also.

To make the candy cane stands, you'll want to hot glue the first two together in the front first. Then a third one is hot glued in the back as a "leg" to keep the stand up. You can then add some tinsel to hide the hot glue a little bit and a chipboard snowflake from the City Sidewalks line.

Now you can dress these up any way you wish. You can add photos of your family for a decor project, or little place cards for each dinner guest in the holders! Mini candy canes can be used as well if you want to try a smaller version. To the “Merry Christmas” place holder, I added some City Sidewalks Parcels Tags. I cut a large snowflake out of the blue snowflake paper called Special Delivery and placed it behind the tags, added another chipboard snowflake and a City Sidewalks Ephemera piece that looks like a peppermint candy.

On the second place card holder, I used more of the Parcel Tags and Chipboard Snowflakes and inserted a photo instead of a sentiment.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Can you believe Christmas is almost here? Are you ready...gifts bought? Cards mailed? Presents wrapped, baking done? I am almost there, still have a couple things left to buy and mail. Getting there slowly, yet surely....

My mom and the girls put the tree up when she was here visiting over Thanksgiving break, so it's been Christmas-ey in here for awhile. Love the twinkling mantle lights on a quiet evening after everyone has gone to bed. So peaceful and beautiful.

Thought I'd share with you what I did for my holiday card and envelopes this year. I literally just came up with this yesterday. Yes, I am "super procrastinator!"

I made the 5x7" photo card myself and printed them out at home. I am not fond of the prices charged for 5x7's online. I just can't see paying $77 for photo cards. So...with 5x7" photo paper in hand, Photoshop, a few envelopes from my stash and some stamps, I have an inexpensive alternative. You can add a punched red circle to finish it off if you'd like...or leave without to add the recipient's mailing address.

I used the new Sending My Love set on the next card too, couldn't resist! I made my own background with reinkers (INK REFILLS that you would reink your stamping pad with), using Spring Moss, Lavender Moon, Harvest Gold and Aqua Mist.To make the little painted circles, I used a paintbrush, one drop of reinker and some water...and just painted the color on in a swirly motion. Start off dipping your brush in a lot of water and a use just a tiny bit of reinker, and you can always go darker. You cannot go lighter! :) Once you add the reinker, it's a done deal and dries almost instantly. :) I made my own tab with a strip of cardstock and used a corner rounder to round the top edges of the tab. EASY, and FUN! Must try it with other colors too!

This is the new Quilled Elegance stamp set. This set of cards are stamped and embossed in white and then I painted in with reinkers again, since I don't have any Copic markers. You can achieve a very similar look to Copics this way.

I really messed up on this one, but I thought I would share it anyway, just in case someone would want to use the idea. I stamped chevrons in different colors ranging from lights to darks, and a Sending My Love sentiment again in between. The heart is from Think Big Favorites #23.

The sentiment on this card was stamped with a new stamp set called Just a Kiss, also used a new border die: XOXO Border.

To get the different colors in the XO, I cut strips of colorful cardstock and adhered them to a thin piece of printer paper. Then added the die over the top of the strips and ran it through the Cuttlebug to cut it out. You'll need a thin piece of paper to adhere all of the strips to. If you use thick cardstock under the colored pieces, the stack will be too thick to cut and won't cut all the way through!

I figured with chemistry and experiments, you also have notebook paper to jot down your notes from the lab experiment. Made my own "notebook" edges with a hole punch, made my own tab, and added to the office feel with a silver brad.Great Chemistry card:STAMPS: Love PotionINK: Summer Sunrise, Limeade Ice, Hawaiian Shores, True Black, Fresh SnowPAPER: Smokey Shadow Pattern Pack, Summer Sunrise cardstock, Aqua Mist cardstock, office paper - Secret Crush by Pink PaisleeDIES: noneOTHER: brad, hole punch.------The other team members have lots to show you also, stop by and leave them some love if you can!Ashley Cannon Newell

Friday, December 14, 2012

Today is the second of the group posts by the Papertrey Ink team, and we are featuring the new stamp set called With All My Heart. Such a beautiful stamp set!My first project is a gift wrap made the new With All My Heart stamps and the new Limitless Layers 2.5" Hearts dies. To make the gift wrap, I used 2 pieces of Soft Stone patterned paper and stitched them together on 3 sides, inserted a gift and stitched up the last side. I used inexpensive crepe paper from the party supply store (in a color similar to Sweet Blush!) to wrap around. To make it ruffly, I fed it through my sewing machine, folding as I went, not being particular as to how even the folds were! I made it long enough to wrap all the way around and tie.

Love these big hearts. They'd make a great Valentine banner to hang on the wall also since they are 2.5" each. Behind the stamped hearts are journaling cards made by Pink Paislee from their new Secret Crush line. I trimmed the bottoms of them to make them look like little banners on my package.

On this card, I used one of the Limitless Layers: 2.5" Hearts dies to trim out the heart in the polkadot paper. Then the polkadot paper with the negative heart is popped up with dimensional adhesive. I placed the stamped image below (from With All My Heart).

Thursday, December 13, 2012

One of my favorite kit clubs has some big, big news they want to share. The Studio Calico design team has grown, and I'm honored to be asked to join their new card kit team! As if my life could not get any busier. lol But how could I say no to a great opportunity? Just the card kit team alone will comprise of 16 people. 16! Oh, the card making ideas that will be posted - all in one spot! There will be a large scrapbooking team and a project life team as well. HERE are the new teams!

Speaking of cards, I have a few little Studio Calico sneakies to share with you so far.
These were all made with the Add-on kit 2. I haven't dug into the main kit yet. But I promise, I will try to back away from the hearts! Couldn't resist these Pink Paislee chip cuties and had to ink them up and use them on everything. The "Yeah" card features some awesome new printables for the month...

Love this arrow paper, was easy to cut right along the arrows to create different shapes.
OK, there you have it! I'll be back in the morning with another Papertrey Ink countdown post! G'night!